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  When it came to completing this project, I definitely underestimated the extent to which it would entail. Professor Roundtree was not lying when she said this would take numerous hours. This project was based around my love for Flamingo’s. When I was younger my love for Flamingos came from their color(I thought it was the perfect color of pink-I even picked out my bedroom paint color to mirror the color of a flamingo!). However, as I have gotten older and have become more curious of the world around me, I’ve learned that Flamingos are naturally a cream color-You could probably imagine the disappointed look on my face as my Biology teacher gave us that fun fact. Flamingos get their pink hue from the food they eat. Their body metabolizes the pigments of the brine shrimp they consume, which in return turns their feathers pink. Now a few years later this fact fascinates me and is one of the main reasons I am studying Biology. When this project was announced and we were given creative lib